If there's physically a path, it's easy - it's a path, even if it's not a legal right of way.

I'll just point out to anyone else reading this that the method described is highly frowned apon by many people in openstreetmap. If you are wondering why, then there's plenty of stuff on the mailing lists about it, and I'm not going to rehash it all here.

The capacity should be the number of bikes that can be parked there - but like Shaun says, I'd suggest sticking to two per hoop at the most!

Definitely a good GPS - make sure you check out adding OSM maps to it for ultimate awesomeness!

Cool! You can also add lots of other stuff along the way - telephone boxes and cycle parking stands are my two favourites beside postboxes.

It's not a user called "anonymous", it's an anonymous user. Remember, we have several thousand user accounts that are indistinguishable and we can't contact the users - it's only potlatch that enforces making your edits public.

I don't think the osm2pgsql diff parsing will be that difficult, it just needs someone focussed on doing so. The base work (slim mode) has already been implemented - because osm2pgsql is lossy it needs a reference dataset to calculate the results of a diff.

At that point, practically every client running t@h could run their own mapnik-powered map all by themselves, and your concerns about not being able to make a map showing everything would become moot.

Heh. Reminds me of the path at the end of our street ( osm.org/?lat=51.459533&lon=-0.211697&zoom=18&layers=B00FT ) which neither me nor Dave even spotted for the first two years in our flat, despite passing it every single day - since we either turn left or right it just wasn't a direction we'd thought about!

No. The mapnik layer doesn't get its coastline directly from the database, and is only updated periodically. See osm.wiki/index.php/Coastline

I come from a mapnik background, so I'm biased in this - but I'd say give it a shot, it's really satisfying how much one person can get done with it.

I haven't bothered - whatever is on the signs is what goes in OpenStreetMap, and since I'm not using any other maps whatever they happen to say is pretty irrelevant to me!

Celebration, undoubtedly. Potlatch is by far my favourite editor, and just keeps getting better.

You can have a look at http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/ and http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/category/openstreetmap/ to see how to combine cycling and OpenStreetMap!

Nice unit! Make sure you try putting OSM maps onto it - it makes the garmins twice as useful!

osm.wiki/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

Looking forward to seeing that appear.

Well done! Make sure you add this to osm.wiki/index.php/OpenStreetMap_in_the_press

It's been on my todo list for quite a while now - I'll get there eventually!

Being able to track changes and maintain your area more easily is something that a lot of people want to do, but it's not very easy to do so at the moment. It's being worked apon - we need to make some changes to OSM to make this easier (like change sets and more 'wiki features').

Sustrans are renumbering some of the routes - the wandle trail through to Croydon is being renumbered to 20 when it gets signed hopefully in the next year.

As for completeness, I find Sustrans are, umm, "ambitious" in what they think are cycle routes using their maps, so it's often impossible to tell.

Nice one.